Reinventing Critical Pedagogy Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education

Rossatto, Cesar Augusto & Ricky Lee Allen & Marc Pruyn

ISBN 10: 0742538885 / ISBN 13: 9780742538887

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

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This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 6.02 X 0.83 X 8.83 inches; 272 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reinventing Critical Pedagogy Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742538885
• ISBN 13: 9780742538887
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Reinventing Critical Pedagogy offers a fresh perspective from which to read, discuss, and debate recent critical interpretations of schooling and our world at present. The authors build upon past accomplishments of critical pedagogy and critique those elements that contradict the radically democratic orientation of the field. Ultimately, they argue that critical pedagogy needs to welcome a wider representational and ideological base for the oppressed, and that it should do so in a way that makes the field more vital in the preparation for the revolutionary struggles ahead. Reinventing Critical Pedagogy takes a step in that direction because it not only takes to task “external” forces such as capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, but also engages the manifestations of these external forces within critical pedagogy itself.

About the Author

César Augusto Rossatto is Associate Professor and Director of the Sociocultural Foundations Division in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is author of numerous publications including: Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility: From Blind to Transformative Optimism (Rowman and Littlefield). He is founder of Paulo Freire SIG (Special Interest Group) at AERA (American Education Research Association). He is founder and chair of the First, Second, and Third International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation http://academics.utep.edu/confele. He teaches courses in critical pedagogy, multiculturalism, education for social justice, sociology of education. He is committed to dialectic and dialogical education and praxis for the liberation of disenfranchised groups. He is also well versed on organizational politics, international and urban education in the U.S. and Latin America. His main research interests are: globalization and neoliberalism in the U.S.-Mexican border region; Brazilian identity formation and social relations in United States, and their implications for schooling; the phenomena of fatalism and optimism in relation to social classes' differences; the application of critical pedagogy; and the origins and effects of whiteness in Brazil and in the United States.

Ricky Lee Allen is Assistant Professor of Educational Thought & Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He received his Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, where he specialized in Urban Schooling. His areas of scholarly interest are sociology of education, critical studies of whiteness, critical race theory, and critical pedagogy. His scholarship focuses on the theoretical aspects of these areas, most specifically on the racial politics of critical educational and social thought. His most recent articles are “Whiteness and Critical Pedagogy” and “The Globalization of White Supremacy.” At UNM, he teaches Critical Race Theory; Paulo Freire Seminar; Whi